Oh, summer fun. Does anyone else have a difficult time adjusting to having all the kids home? Breaking up the fights and attempting to keep the kids entertained. Well, I think that might be my problem, I am hoping to get my kids to entertain themselves, but is that really possible when they are still young. Caleb does good entertaining himself but if he had it his way, he would play gamecube, wii or DS all day. Teagan and Savannah entertain themselves but often at the cost, of a huge mess to clean up. Ok, so maybe "constructive entertainment" is what I should be striving for here. I do have the older kids doing some activities but dragging a 15 mo. old around in 100+ heat and trying to work around naps is not very easy.
100 degree heat and going up...Well, when you live in Arizona and don't have a pool you find other ways that are fun to entertain your kids. We have been enjoying having friends and cousins over, Caleb enjoys drawing class, and swim team (Ok maybe he doesn't enjoy swim team, but he is still doing it) Teagan and Savannah are enjoying swim lessons and all are enjoying fun days eating popsicles and playing on the slip-n-slide and "small" pool in our back yard. In the afternoon we retreat inside for movie time and hopefully some time for Mom to get some things down around the house. We are looking forward to going to California for a few weeks. Spending a week at my Mom and Dad's condo and another week at the beach. Seeing the my brother's kids is always fun. We also get to go up to the White Mts. in Northern Az. for the Smithson reunion (we go every year). We enjoy the cooler weather, rain and camping with the kids. Soon enough the kids will be back in school and busy as ever with another school year and sports etc... to fill up the days....I do enjoy the lazy days of summer.
